| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library. By Andrew Glenn Kirk. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xix +243. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

Andrew Kirk tells an interesting tale of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Conservation Library Collection (CLC) at the Denver Public Library. The CLC was started by Arthur Carhart in the early 1960s and ended by Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. Its brief history, according to Kirk, "illustrates in microcosm the deep changes in definitions of environmental problems and their solutions" that characterized those two decades, and "provides an opportunity to rethink American environmentalism" during that time, particularly in relation to gender, technology, and generational issues (p. ix). 1

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